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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_the_Apostle" title="Matthias the Apostle">Saint Matthias</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1264" title="1264">1264</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barons%27_War" title="Second Barons' War">Second Barons' War</a>: King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> was defeated at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewes" title="Battle of Lewes">Battle of Lewes</a></b> and forced to sign the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_of_Lewes" title="Mise of Lewes">Mise of Lewes</a></b>, making <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort,_6th_Earl_of_Leicester" title="Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester">Simon de Montfort</a> the <i>de facto</i> ruler of England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindon_Min" title="Mindon Min">Mindon Min</a> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Mindon_Min" title="Coronation of Mindon Min">crowned as King of Burma</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union</a> troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jackson,_Mississippi" title="Battle of Jackson, Mississippi">captured Jackson</a></b>, the capital of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a> – Five people were killed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85dalen" title="Ådalen">Ådalen</a>, Sweden, as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85dalen_shootings" title="Ådalen shootings">soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion" title="David Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion</a> publicly read the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Israeli Declaration of Independence">Israeli Declaration of Independence</a></b> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Hall_(Israel)" title="Independence Hall (Israel)">Independence Hall</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Imlay" title="Fanny Imlay">Fanny Imlay</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1794); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole" title="Mary Seacole">Mary Seacole</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1881); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Cosgrove" title="Miranda Cosgrove">Miranda Cosgrove</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1993); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taruni_Sachdev" title="Taruni Sachdev">Taruni Sachdev</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1998; <abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>
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